Duplicate sales-book.



A. GREENSTEIN. DUPLICATE SALES BOOK- APPLICATION FILED .IULY19.19H.

1,261,514. Patented Apr. 2; 1918.

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DUPLICATE SALES-BOOK.

Application filed July 19, 1917.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ABRAHAM GREEN- STEIN, a citizen of the UnitedStates, and resident of the city of New York, borough of Manhattan, inthe county and State of New York, have invented a new and ImprovedDuplicate Sales-Book, of which the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription.

This invention relates to duplicate sales checks or tags of thecharacter covered by Letters Patent of the United States issued to me onthe 26th day of September, 1916, No. 1,199,692, and has particularreference to certain details of construction which adapt the sales bookor the several tags for easier and more rapid manipulation and wherebythe cost of production of the books is greatly reduced. For a practicalembodiment of the invention and for illustrations of its adaptabilityreference is had to the accompanying drawings in which similar referencecharacters are applied to similar parts and of which- Figure 1 is aperspective view of the sales book embodying my new improvements.

Fig. 2 is a diagram indicating in full lines the manner of threading thewrapping cord through the holes in opposite sides of the tag, and in dotand dash lines the relation of the cord to the tag after being sothreaded; and

Fig. 3 is a View of the package to which my improved tag is appliedduring the wrapping operation.

Referring now more particularly to Fig. 1 which shows the improvement asa whole and which in a general way is somewhat similar to that describedin the patent above referred to, I show a book comprising a collectionof pairs of leaves, the first or uppermost leaf of each pair beingindicated at 10 and the second leaf of each pair being indicated at 11.These leaves carry similar marks of identification according to thecourse the package is to take, and as in the previous case the firstleaf is preferably of a thin and cheap quality of paper compared withthe second leaf. Each leaf is divided into two parts, one longer and theother shorter, but with the longer part 10 of the first leaf beingexactly equal in size to the part 11 of the second leaf. Also the thinpart 10 of the first leaf exactly coincides with the heavy part 11directly beneath it. The

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 2, 1918.

Serial No. 181,504.

two parts of each leaf are connected as heretofore by a weakened lineindicated at 10 and 11 respectively so that they may be separated afterthe sales person has made the proper inscription thereon writingdirectly upon the first sheet and making a carbon impression in theusual i'nanner upon the second sheet.

The longer portions of the leaves are provided with holes 12 at theopposite ends and preferably at the centers of such ends. Likewise theshorter portions of the leaves are provided with holes 13 at or near thecenters of their shorter ends, all the holes at the same end or portionof each leaf part being in precise registry with one another th roughoutthe book. The purpose of the holes 12 and 13 in the heavy tough tagparts of the second leaf is to provide for the wrapping of the tag thatis to accompany the package directly upon the package while the packageis being wrapped. By passing the cord through the two opposite holes inthe tag so that the main portion of the cord adjacent to the tag liesfiat upon the outside of the tag it is insured that the tag will besecurely applied so as not to become lost or torn, by a single simplewrapping operation. Since the cord lies flat across nearly all of thelonger dimension of the tag it is unnecessary to entail the expense ofthe reinforcement of the holes in the manufacture of the book and thusby this improvement and method of wrapping the saving of thousands ofdollars annually in the item of sales books alone is being effected. Thesaving, however, in the price of sales books is of relatively smallconsequence compared with the saving of time and labor in the wrappingand delivery of the goods in large department stores. The provision ofthe duplicate holes at opposite ends of the tag to ,be applied to thepackage makes it feasible and practical for the wrapping cord to bethreaded or projected readily therethrough by means of a stationaryneedle projecting from beneath a shelf or desk, as indicated in Fig. 2,through which the end of the wrapping cord is supported. The operatorsimply doubles the tag and passes the two registering holes over theneedle 14 having the eye 15 through which the loose end 16 of the cordpasses. This operation is of the simplest character and requirespractically no time. When the tag is thus slipped over the needle asshown in full lines, the operator or wrapper grasps the free end of thecord between his thumb and finger and draws it directly toward him,

the tag following the cord. The wrapping of the package is thencompleted in the usual manner with the result that the tag is securelyapplied thereto simply by the wrapping operation. A, tag having only onehole for tying purposes must ordinarily be reinforced or made of aquality of paper that is practically prohibitive at the present time.Furthermore to tie tag to a package, the tag having only one hole asheretofore, the tying of the tag must ordinarily be done through aseparate action or operation subsequent to the wrapping of the package.F or these reasons it must be appreciated that the wrapping and deliveryof goods may effected not only much more rapidly by this new system, butis much sa er for all parties concerned than through previous systems.

While the thin slips 10 and 10 are intended for local or oiiice use, notbeing for attachment to the packages, it is of great importance that theholes be formed therein as well as in the tag portions 11 and 11" forthis reason. The sales person writes the inscription upon the firstslips 10 and 10 a sheet of carbon being placed between the two leaves asusual. If new the thin sheets were not perforated in registry with thetag portions the tendency or danger would be that the writer would ritedirectly over that portion of a tag having a hole. This operation wouldcause at least two undesirable results, first, the pencil would probablypuncture the paper, interfering with the writing, and, secondly, if animportant part of the inscription such, for example, as

a figure of an address were to be written in this manner upon the thinsheet the record made upon the delivery-tag would be defective in notcarrying that particular figure and hence the delivery would fail forwant of correct address, whereas with the sheets both perforated inalineinent the writer cannot write upon the first sheet any figure orletter that will not be reproduced upon the second sheet.

I claim:

1. The herein described foldable delivery tag for packages having a pairof cord holes formed in its opposite ends, the centers of the holesbeing in a line perpendicular to the central transverse line of the tagwhereby when the tag is folded along said transverse line the two holeswill register. 7

2. The herein described duplicate sales book comprising pairs of thinand thick leaves, the thin leaves being for office use and the thickleaves being for delivery use, the thick leaves being adapted to receivea written carbon impression from the thin leaves, and said leaves beingprovided in the book with registering holes of equal sizes, said holesin the thick leaves being for the application of wrapping cord.

3. In a duplicate sales book, the combination of thin and thick leavesarranged in pairs, each leaf comprising a pair of separable tags and thetwo of one leaf coinciding with the tags of the neXt leaf, and each tagof each leaf being provided with a plurality of oppositely arrangedholes, the holes of one leaf registering with the holes of the nextleaf.

ABRAHAM GREEN STEIN.

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